After their failure to advance and take the control of new areas…the regime forces target by internationally prohibited bombs, vast farm lands in the northern countryside of Hama and the southern countryside of Idlib resulting in the burning of thousands of dunams of them

The aerial and ground bombardment is continuing intensively within the “de-escalation” zone, where the area witnessed escalated pace of ground shelling by the regime forces particularly since yesterday after midnight, after the heavy shelling they carried out yesterday by the internationally prohibited incendiary bombs, through which they tended to target the southern and western farm lands of Khan Shaykhun, in addition to Al-Hbit, Abdeen, Kafr Zita and Al-Lataminah, which resulted in setting fire to these farm lands as a part of the series of the continued targeting to agricultural lands through deliberate aerial and ground bombardment in the recent days, burning hundreds of hectares of crops in the northern countryside of Hama and the southern countryside of Idlib, and the Syrian Observatory published yesterday, that warplanes and helicopters deliberately targeted agricultural land in the southern countryside of Idlib and the northern countryside of Hama, which set fire to hundreds of hectares of agricultural land on which people of the area depend in their living, these comes as a scene no longer strange to the criminality of the regime of Bashar al-Assad, it is worth mentioning that the regime forces have stolen the agricultural crops within the areas they recently controlled in the Hama countryside; in addition to the looting of housing and shops.

While it rose to 107, the number of barrel bombs dropped by helicopters since after the midnight, they are: 71 on Kafr Nabudah, 16 on al-Hbit, 8on Al-Ftirah, 8 on al-Qassabiyyeh, and 4 on Khan Shaykhun, also it rose to 89, the number of raids carried out by regime’s warplanes since today’s dawn, they are: 55 on Kafr Nabudah, 13 on Al-Hbit, 8 on Khan Shaykhun and its outskirts, 7 on Kabana, and 3 raids on each of Kafr Zita and Kafr Sajna, while the warplanes of the Russian “guarantor” carried out more raids on Khan Shaykhun city and its vicinity, also it rose to 760 the number of shells and missiles fired by the regime forces on the contact areas in both northern and north-western countryside of Hama, the southern sector of Idlib countryside, in addition to Jabal Al-Akrad in the northern countryside of Latakia, where Kafr Nabudah has been targeted by more than 550 shells and missiles since today’s dawn.